On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 01:50:09PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Simon Horman <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > This test appears bogus because the e_phnum element of Elf32_Phdr and
> > is an unsigned 16bit entity.
> 
> The test is a basic sanity check, that apparently can never fail.  So I
> see no harm in removing it.

Thanks, I will push this change.

> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> > This addresses the following warnings:
> >
> > vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c: In function 'read_elf32':
> > vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c:116: warning: comparison is always false due to 
> > limited range of data type
> > vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c: In function ‘read_elf64’:
> > vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c:192: warning: comparison is always false due to 
> > limited range of data type
> >
> > Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c |    8 --------
> >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
> > index 7015894..365e293 100644
> > --- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
> > +++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
> > @@ -113,10 +113,6 @@ static void read_elf32(int fd)
> >                     ehdr.e_phentsize, sizeof(Elf32_Phdr));
> >             exit(12);
> >     }
> > -   if (ehdr.e_phnum > ULONG_MAX/sizeof(Elf64_Phdr)) {
> > -           fprintf(stderr, "Too many elf program header entries\n");
> > -           exit(13);
> > -   }
> >     phdrs32_size = ehdr.e_phnum * sizeof(Elf32_Phdr);
> >     phdrs_size = ehdr.e_phnum * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr);
> >     phdr32 = calloc(ehdr.e_phnum, sizeof(Elf32_Phdr));
> > @@ -189,10 +185,6 @@ static void read_elf64(int fd)
> >                     ehdr.e_phentsize, sizeof(Elf64_Phdr));
> >             exit(12);
> >     }
> > -   if (ehdr.e_phnum > ULONG_MAX/sizeof(Elf64_Phdr)) {
> > -           fprintf(stderr, "Too many program header entries\n");
> > -           exit(13);
> > -   }
> >     phdrs_size = ehdr.e_phnum * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr);
> >     phdr64 = calloc(ehdr.e_phnum, sizeof(Elf64_Phdr));
> >     if (!phdr64) {
> 

_______________________________________________
kexec mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec

Reply via email to